Earth Science Final Review- A

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Across
  1. 2. cyclonic storm with winds 39-73 mph
  2. 5. most abundant gas in atmosphere
  3. 7. objects that allow electrical currents to flow through them
  4. 8. proposed the plate tectonics theory in 1912
  5. 9. elements and compounds are __ __ (25)
  6. 14. something that changes the result of an experiment
  7. 15. hurricane in northwestern Pacific (eastern Asia)
  8. 17. mountain in ocean
  9. 21. one way nitrogen is fixated in the atmosphere
  10. 22. start of hurricane season
  11. 25. dry weather on leeward side of mountain (bottom of 508)
  12. 27. Earth began as a __ planet (p. 307)
  13. 28. side of mountain that gets more precipitation (bottom of 508)
Down
  1. 1. hardest mineral
  2. 3. someone who studies earthquakes
  3. 4. man who helped Koppen come up with climate classification (511)
  4. 6. homogenous and heterogenous are groups of __
  5. 10. technology that uses sound waves to map ocean (323)
  6. 11. short for astronomical unit
  7. 12. layer of Earth's atmosphere with weather
  8. 13. bottom dwellers in ocean
  9. 16. Sun, moon, and stars were created on day __.
  10. 18. negatively charged particle outside of nucleus
  11. 19. center of an atom with neutrons and protons
  12. 20. freely swimming organisms
  13. 23. name for supercontinent; "all lands" (110)
  14. 24. coldest layer of atmosphere
  15. 26. __ gives things weight (29, 30)